Keyword strategy ( Section 1)

[deepsand]

That's progress, dang it!

Sad; but, true.

Each day brings fresh evidence of those who seem to have never learned that "Form follows Function," of those who are so thoroughly enamored of "cool," "now," "happening," etc., that they've no care for how well anything actually works.

[Clint1]

Which raises the question as to why Yahoo discontinued it.

Perhaps an opinion poll is in order.

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[deepsand]

See http://www.webproworld.com/groups/10...t#gmessage1006

[stevekolbe]

If your services are locally based, do you append a geographic identifier into your keywords? Such as "cattle herders montana"?

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[deepsand]

That depends on whether or not there's evidence of users doing so.

In the absence of such, one must rely of the content of the ad itself to distinguish itself with respect to geographic scope.

[deepsand]

... I usually pick long tail words to get to drive traffic to my site, because the short-tail search strings are allready taken. But I guess Denmark is different than US -might be even harder in US due to the size......

Actually, it's rather easy to do here as well; larger doesn't necessarily mean smarter.

[Terry Van Horne]

The very "general" rule is 60 characters in the title tag. Note that a "word" is generally considered 5 characters so that's about 12 words. But the SE's will display more than that. (I believe G displays about 66). You can use more they just won't be displayed in the results, they'll be truncated.

I think Google truncates at 66th character or there abouts. I know of a test where it is indicated 10 words are weighted... rest if the qwords may as well be in the doc. Haven't tested it lately so it may have changed... though I doubt it.

FMI: Google – How Many Words In A Page Title Tag? | Hobo

About 70 in these cases:
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/title-tag-seo/ - Google Search

HoboA HoboB HoboC - Google Search

Yes Hobo Web is a great resource... if you sign up to the newsletter he's giving away the ebook he's releasing on link building.

[inertia]

I think Google truncates at 66th character or there abouts.

I've always thought it was 70?

I've been using this tool recently to get my listings looking cool: Google SERP Snippet Optimization Tool.

[reubin]

1.Select words that users is likely to search for search for .
2.Select words that I want user to search for word

[deepsand]

1.Select words that users is likely to search for search for.

Isn't that self evident?

2.Select words that I want user to search for word

How do you get users to search for words of your choice?